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Associate structural elements to grid lines

Structural elements are associated to grids so changes to grid layout will propagate to associated elements, such as beams, columns, bearing walls, and footings.
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Future consideration

Railing Prostructures section placement point

When you are choosing the Prostructures members in any of the areas the member is always Place top Center. Need to be appy to choose the placement point E.G. Centre - Center
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Trim/Extend Multiple Walls

The Connect Walls command only works on 1 wall at a time. If the users need to extend multiple walls to touch another wall, the user must click the same wall multiple times. We should strive to match the workflow available in the Trim to Element C...
over 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

IFC entity mapping for subcomponents of Curtain Wall

The subcomponents Panels and Mullions of Curtain Wall now mapped to IfcBuildingElementProxy in IfcEntity when exported to IFC4 in OpenBuildings. Tried to modify the mapping options in the IFC Export dialog or edit the IFC_PartMapping_ifc4.set to a...
6 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

OBD / OBES Python API

Implement Python API for OBD and OpenBuilding Energy Simulator. Previous discussion here
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Room Ref and Room name lines when creating a new room

When tracing a new room, the window pops up to input the room reference. I want an additional line put in, so I can write the room name/description, as well as the room reference. Currently, I have to complete tracing the room to create it, then r...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Room by Room Schedule Summary

I want a facility to quickly print a schedule that shows every room within the whole building and summarizes the area of each room and the occupancy of that room. I do not want a total for the whole building. It needs to be on a room-by-room basis...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Annotation Tools Refresh

Some of OBD's Annotation tools date back to the 90s and need to be updated. A lot of OBD's functionality is also based on new Mstn tech like DV callouts (Place Section Callout, Place Detail Callout, Place Elevation Callout, Place Plan Callout, Pla...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

Grid Systems and Floor manager

In Grid systems menu there is a possibity to import XML files. But I receive IFC or RVT files. And mostley there is a grid IFCGrid. Is it possible to import this IFCGrid into OpenBuilding and also the levels of the floor in the floor manager. Beca...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 4 Future consideration

Section callout

Section callout should be moved by the keyboard's arrows.
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 4 Future consideration